News tagged with contest
NanoTube Contest Brings Out the Hollywood Side of Nano Things
(PhysOrg.com) -- How would you describe "nano" to someone who had never heard of it before? In a video contest held by the American Chemical Society (ACS), scientists-turned-filmmakers are explaining what ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Oops: Colbert wins NASA space station name contest
(AP) -- NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2009 |
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It Takes a Solar Village
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Actor Alan Alda sponsors 'fiery' science contest
American actor Alan Alda remembers the disappointment of being 11 and asking a teacher about the flame at the end of a candle, only to be brushed off with the answer: "It's oxidation."
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Russian whizzes win global collegiate IT contest
Three Russian computer whizzes were crowned the world's top collegiate programmers Thursday, when they clobbered 111 other teams from across the globe to win the 36th annual "Battle of Brains" in Warsaw.
May 17, 2012 |
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Texas Tech, U of Utah win Sandia microdevice competition
The world's smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year's design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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'Curiosity': NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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Netflix to run second film-suggestion tech contest
(AP) -- You might call it "Son of the Netflix Prize."
Aug 11, 2009 |
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